Calendar for Praying the Step by Step Online Retreat Alongside the Liturgical Year

You can begin this Retreat any time and do the Steps with your own pace, but if you want to bring the Retreat in harmony with the celebrations of the liturgical year use the schematic calendar below. (If you wish, print it out and write your own dates and notes on it).

In this way, beginning the Retreat in Agust/September you will contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation and of the birth of Jesus around Christmas and the Passion and Resurrection around Easter - whenever it falls in the given year-, and finish in May/June after Pentecost of that year.

In this schema, first we take the Steps biweekly that gives time to get familiar with the method, to experiment with it, and to find the best place and time of the day for prayer, and so on. Then we will go mainly with weekly schedule, staying with each Step for a week more or less, except that for some demanding meditations (e.g. Steps 13) to which we can dedicate more time. During the Holy Week we make our prayer more intense to contemplate the events of the passion daily and arrive to the Resurrection on Easter Sunday. After Easter we will go again with a slower pace until Pentecost and to the aftermath of the Retreat.

The Retreat ends at Pentecost with the Contemplation to attain the love of God that will lead us to the ordinary times of daily life in the aftermath of the Retreat. During the summer weeks if one desires could continue with our Contemplative Series - which is a school of contemplative prayer.